Dr Billy Ralph's letter to the Irish Times

Dr Ralph's note is with the Irish Times letters page

Dr Billy Ralph pictured in his local newspaper

Dr Billy Ralph wrote a letter in response to a feature article (below) by Kathy Sheridan in the Irish Times this weekend.

“In many ways, this is the story of how a family with two teenage children negotiated a devastating diagnosis and chaotic illness together.”

“It could also be read as a 300-page rebuke to those who contended that the CMO and head of the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) didn’t live in the “real” world. The book suggests it was more “real” than most.”

- Excerpt from Kathy Sheridan’s review (Irish Times) of former CMO Tony' Holohan’s We Need to Talk.

Dr Billy Ralph’s letter is published in full below:

Kathy I read your review of Tony Holohan’s book. His personal tragedy was
obviously very painful for him and his family, but I do not wish to comment on
those matters.

I am one of those doctors who criticised NPHET’s approach. However I did it
with a lot more information to hand than a ‘member of the public’.
I received my information from Prof Karl Heneghan (Epidemiologist,Oxford) as
did Dáil Eireann, who subsequently chose to ignore his expert advice on
masks. Prof John Ioannidis ( Epidemiologist,Stanford) who as early as April, 2020
had established the age profile at risk and the infection fatality rate. As had
Prof Michael Levitt (Nobel laureate) even earlier, but his communications with
the infamous Prof Niall Ferguson were ignored.

I also received my information from those who wrote the Great Barrington
Declaration, people such as Prof Jay Bhattacharya (Medicine, Stanford) Prof Martin Kuldorff (Medicine, Harvard) and Prof S Gupta (Epidemiology, Oxford).

The early clinical management of a Sars-CoV2 infection was described by Dr Pierre Kory and Prof. Paul Marik (intensive care physicians, USA) as well as Prof Peter McCullough (Cardiologist, USA), contrary to the advice issued by the ICGP (Irish college of General Practitioners).

None of these people were listened to instead they were systematically
vilified by the media, many losing clinical and academic positions.

Further I wrote about these issues in real time not in ‘hindsight’ (see
Cassandra Voices, Irish Medical Times and Wexford People 27/10/20).
Despite Tony Holohan’s protests fear was systematically used to control
people’s activities. Two authors Prof M Desmet and Laura Dodsworth have
documented clearly how this was carried out.

The delay in establishing an investigation into why and how the past few years
were handled in the way that they were is telling. With an election coming up
next year it will likely be many years before these people are questioned on
issues such as nursing home deaths, lockdowns, mask and Covid vaccine mandates
etc.

I worked everyday through Covid, I saw patients everyday in my surgery and in
their homes. I treated many vulnerable people with Covid and they recovered. I
continue to work everyday in a health service that is in disarray. I am seeing
young people with vaccine injuries, my colleagues, who will only speak off the
record, are seeing increased numbers of autoimmune conditions and cancers.

And of course the elephant in the room is excess deaths which nobody wants to
discuss. In the USA the Society of Actuaries have reported that their members
are paying out record levels of insurance payments in the 18-64 year age
group. The ONS (office for National Statistics) in the UK recently published
its data on still births for 2021.In 5 of the 7 months post the roll out of
the Covid vaccine for pregnant women the stillbirth rate was higher than the 5
year average, compared to 2  occasions in the previous 17 months. And here in
Ireland, in a recent communication with the CSO, we have not even begun to look
at the data.

Nobody denies that Tony Holohan had a difficult job to do, but he was not a
clinician and never treated a Covid patient. And sadly he like many senior
doctors that I have had the misfortune to encounter in my 30 years of practice
was blinded intellectually and clinically by hubris and perhaps some personal
unacknowledged deficits amounting to a tragic example of the Dunning-Kruger
effect.

Dr William Ralph
Enniscorthy
Wexford

*The Dunning-Kruger effect is a form of cognitive bias

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